Weak instrument inference in the presence of parameter instability
参数不稳定下的弱工具变量推断
This paper addresses the question of how to conduct inference on weakly identified coefficients in unstable econometric models. The weak correlations between the instruments and the relevant first‐order condition are modelled as local to zero, and we focus on moderate parameter instabilities. We show that, in the presence of weak identification, asymptotic distributions on the estimators and tests remain robust to moderate instability. Therefore, inference on the subset of…